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Comment Multiple methods vs 1. (Score 2) 86

Humans use multiple methods of thought.
Faith: (Appeal to Authority)
Science: (Scientific Method)
Formal Logic (If x then y)
Bias: (Appeal to previous examples)

While AI is built on Formal Logic, it does not use it. Instead it uses Bias entirely. It has no faith and does not understand or use the scientific method.

Submission + - Pneumonic plague outbreak hits Siberia as lab worker, 28, dies (hotair.com)

schwit1 writes: A suspected plague outbreak has erupted in Russia — killing a young lab worker, forcing nearly 200 people into isolation and triggering accusations that Vladimir Putin’s regime is trying to keep the infection’s possible spread under wraps.

The alarm was raised in Siberia after a worker at an anti-plague laboratory died of the disease, which killed tens of millions in the medieval Black Death, according to a report from The Moscow Times.

Anna Popova, who heads Russia’s public-health watchdog, then rushed 2,600 miles from Moscow to the Irkutsk region as authorities quarantined a hospital and placed scores of people who had come into contact with the victim under medical observation.

"FSB units accompanying ambulances transporting people who had been in contact with [lab tech] Shipilova for medical examination," as per local news. This is significant. FSB is Russia's domestic security / counterintelligence service, tasked w/implementing the national security of Russia." (Its predecessor was the KGB). This suggests quarantine was not voluntary.

It also means Russian authorities are treating the lab accident and plague outbreak as a national security issue, involving a lot more than routine public health.

https://x.com/AnnieJacobsen/st...

Comment Re:Not enough (Score 1) 191

1) I have no children.
2) I was very specific about Asia being a very different culture.
3) I have seen several studies that indicate most abusers come from entitled families and were not themselves abused as a child.
4) You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are NOT entitled to call other's opinion's "nonsense"

Comment Not enough (Score 4, Insightful) 191

People want to have sex. They want children. A low birthrate means there are systematic issues that are stopping it from happening.

Most of the world has a significant cost factor. Raising a child is very expensive. Frankly, I think that the government should pay for minimum pre-natal care as well as basic birth costs. It is in our government's best interests for the children to be born as healthy as possible.

But I do not know if that is the main problem in Singapore. Asia is a radically different culture from ours.
In Korea the problem is a culture of work over family. but that might be the same in Singapore.

Comment Is water wet? (Score 1) 164

Yes, AI programmed by large corporations, are biased in favor of the company that build them.

You use Gemini (made by Googled) it will favor Youtube (owned by Google) videos over other content.

And yes, it will push the political beliefs of Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai.

They try to be subtle, but the bias is there if you look for it.

Comment this article is the absolute counterexample (Score 4, Insightful) 164

To Betteridge.
Of course AI chatbots are spreading misinformation; that is their entire function.
The reality isn't Terminator or Slaughterbots (yet); it's much more mundane.
For those already in power, AI further concentrates that power by drowning out the discourse among the rest of us.
It's not even necessary for the BS to be believed, only that all other conversations and analytical thought is interrupted.

Submission + - The Nature of War has just changed forever (telegraph.co.uk)

MrBrklyn writes: Ukrainiaan land robots have been deployed in combat, killing thousands of Russian troops and changing the face of warfare forever. Leaders accross the globe are sitting up in the seats and paying attention as what started as a localized Russian agression has now turned into a world altering and historic war which the Russians seemingly have no means to win.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/wo...

Comment Criminal Liability is needed, not civil (Score 4, Informative) 76

We need to be able to jail the morons that let this situation develop, not merely sue them.

Why?

Because the people in charge think they will always have enough money to be sued.

Note, as others have mentioned, this is not a training problem, it is an air gap problem.

That is, no one trying to develop software that hacks other software should be allowed to put it on the internet. It needs to be developed on air gapped computers that physically cannot get to the internet.

This also means that 'agents' should have the same rules. If you cannot ensure your agents do not attempt to hack software, then your agents should not be allowed out of your computer.

Comment Re:AI Assumptions (Score 1) 87

1) TikTok did not manipulate all WLW into thinking it is OK. They had maybe one case of success. I admit their are idiots out there - in both white and black, liberal and conservative, male and female. The existence of one idiot does not mean the majority of people are morons. Democracy expects there to be more intelligent people than morons. If this is not true, Democracy would fail even without AI.

2) People have been manipulating idiots for thousands of years, having AI do it also does not change anything.

3) They did not convince normal people, they convinced idiots. You cannot convince normal people of shit like that.

4) You are over-estimating the power of manipulation. People are smarter than you think they are. Granted they are also dumber then I think they are, but the happy middle has proven sufficient so far to negate the manipulation problem.

Comment AI Assumptions (Score 1) 87

I can see idiots using AI to make ads and do other Candidate Manager type jobs.

I can also see a few idiots using AI to decide how to vote. But:
Straight Party voters will not use AI in the general election.
Less involved party members may use it in the Primary, but the motivated will know who to vote for and ignore AI.

Most independents who do not care will not vote.
Independents who are motivated will know who to vote for and ignore AI.

In other words, I see AI as having a minimal effect among those that will vote but who are not very motivated. Maybe 1-2%

That may affect close elections, but not the big stuff.

Comment .... Underearth Force, Solar Force, Acid F. (Score 1) 372

I mean, really. How many "force"s are we going to end up with ?

Not even clear whether this "Force" is going to support/defend AI or defend us from AI.

Which is probably the point. He wants to sound like he is doing something without actually telling us what he is doing.

That way he can declare it a success no matter what happens.

Submission + - FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to foreign powers (arstechnica.com)

Local ID10T writes: The Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved Paramount Skydance's plan to sell large equity stakes to the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.

Under US law, companies with licenses to run broadcast stations need FCC approval to have direct or indirect foreign ownership exceeding 25 percent of the company's stock. Paramount says its indirect foreign ownership will reach 49.5 percent after it receives investments from the sovereign wealth funds and filed a petition asking the FCC to waive the foreign ownership limit.

Paramount, the owner of CBS, holds FCC licenses for the 28 local CBS stations that it owns and operates. Paramount is buying Warner Bros. Discovery in a $111 billion deal that is being partially financed with foreign investment but hasn't completed the acquisition because US states filed a lawsuit that aims to block the merger. Trump's Department of Justice approved the merger.

The FCC is letting Paramount sell indirect ownership stakes to "some of the most repressive governments in the world," FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, the only Democrat on the commission, said yesterday. "An investment this large in one of America's biggest media companies doesn't just buy equity, it secures influence over what gets said and what gets made."

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